The European Institute of the Mediterranean organises the first face-to-face meeting of the MAGIC project on 21 and 22 November to be held at its headquarters in Barcelona.
The objective of the Ideas and Coalition Building Hub is two-fold:
Present and fine-tune the selected local and online awareness campaigns in a dynamic and interactive way.
A MAGIC – A Coalition of Muslim women and communities Against Gender Islamophobia in Society will be officially formed.
The meeting includes a seminar about the main aspects to be taken into account in the creation of awareness raising campaign, discussions to fine-tune the local and online awareness campaigns selected by MAGIC, the presentation of the MAGIC Declaration, and a discussion on how to disseminate the recommendations and conclusions of the project.
(Attendance only by invitation)
Debate “Media, Democracy, Diversity”
Back-to-back this MAGIC meeting, the IEMed hosts the public debate “Media, democracy and diversity” on Monday 21st November at 7 pm (CET). Rizwana Hamid, director of the Centre for Muslim Council of Britain’s Centre for Media Monitoring, Xavier Giró, professor of journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Alaaddine Azzouzi, a reporter at VilaWeb, are among the speakers of the debate.
The event will count with the opening remarks of Senén Florensa, Executive President of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), Núria Serra, Head of the Department of Interculturality and Religious Pluralism, Barcelona City Council, and Manuela Fernández Ruiz, Director of the Office for Equal Treatment and Non-discrimination of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Giving the floor to…
On the occasion of the Ideas and Coalition Hub, we asked some participants their opinion about the need for projects like MAGIC, about Islamophobia in Europe and their countries, and how to counter it in Media narratives and through awareness campaigns.
Fostering Muslim women’s voice in the Media, according to May Zeidani
La lutte pour faire audible la voix des musulmanes dans les Média, selon Fatima Bent (présidente du Lallab)
Fostering inclusive journalism according to Zorro Maplestone
Changing Media perceptions of Muslim women, according to Mariam el Marakeshy
Promover la voz de las mujeres musulmanas en los medios, según Lucila Rodríguez-Alarcón
Campañas de sensibilización en el marco de MAGIC, según Hind el Fadli (Asociación G-CHIME)
